26 August 2014

They arise early in the hills! We announce first winners of free books

KEITH JACKSON

YESTERDAY PNG Attitude began a competition in which we will send 10 free copies of the Crocodile Prize Anthology 2014– free of charge and to be handed out freely – to those PNG readers who provide a good description of where the books could be of the most use.

Winners will be allowed to keep a copy of the Anthology for themselves so long as they distribute the other copies to libraries, schools, universities, hospitals, aid posts and other good places.

Today I can announce the first three winners – Jimmy Awagl, John Kaupa Kamasua and Arnold Mundua. Writers all, they are not unknown names to us.

“I would like to distribute those books among three schools in the isolated setting in Simbu,” Jimmy writes.

“Mai High, Parua Primary and Ku High. Ku High School has built a new library and called it after the Simbu Writers Association.

“The shelves are empty and we in dire needs of books for students and the general public to read.”

Well, 10 books are on the way, Jimmy.

“I want to distribute the 2014 Anthology to four high schools and six top-up primary schools in the Kundiawa-Gembogl electorate in Simbu,” writes Arnold.